McCarthy apart, who presumably has a huge wage cut built into his contract should we go down, Sullivan & Gold look to me as if they have been building a team for the Fizzy Pop since their arrival. Mido and Ilan are clearly not good enough for the Prem but does anybody doubt, watching Carroll for Newcastle, that they would be bloody effective a division lower.
Relegation may be desirable from the point of view of long term planning for Sullivan and Gold as it would trigger the sale of all our high wage earners. We can safely assume that Behrami, Parker, Upson, Green, Diamanti, Cole and Faubert will all be sold, bringing in approximately £43m in transfer revenues. More importantly still, the wage bill will be slashed. Lets work on the basis of the following salaries which are as near as damn accurate:
Green £1.8m per annum
Behrami £2m per annum
Parker £3.12m per annum
Faubert £2.6m per annum
Diamanti £1.8m per annum
Upson £3.12m per annum
Cole £2m per annum
That is £16.5m a year saved in salaries. If they could somehow offload Dyer as well, there would be a further saving of £3.64m which gives a very tidy £20m a year for ease of calculation. Now these are committed salaries. Save yourself this money for 3 years and that is a cool £60m. How much do we lose for dropping out of the Prem? With the parachute payment, it isn't as much as that! Plus you have the bonus of the £43m generated from sales and wage reductions for other players based on relegation clauses in contracts. Suddenly, financially, it isn't looking so very bad is it? Plus we save on Franco's salary too, unless he fancies a year in the Fizzy Pop on £5k per week.
What do Sullivan and Gold plan from there? Well this team would be fine for the Fizzy Pop:
Stech: Spector, Da Costa, Tomkins, Ilunga; Stanislas, Noble, Kovac, Collison; Mido, Ilan
We already have Gabbidon, Nouble (blooded in the Fizzy Pop), Sears (ditto), Hines, the Icelandic kid and Daprela in reserve, plus McCarthy. So, a couple of loan signings and four experienced players who have done the rounds in the Fizzy Pop, and we would be equipped to push for promotion. Should that target be secured, the younger players will all have benefited from a year of maturing in the lower division and the club would be back in rude financial health in terms of being able to sign 4 or 5 players equipped to cope in the Prem. If we yoyo, so what? Providing the wage bill is managed, Sullivan and Gold will be quids in.
Why have we kept Zola? That may just be your answer! As somebody else pointed out, Sullivan and Gold are VERY successful business men!
Come On You It All Makes Perfect Business Sense Irons!
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Maybe I was wrong! There is a long term strategy in place at the Club. Unfortunately, for the fans it may mean getting relegated. HF's article makes a lot of financial sense. The only way to get rid of the high salaries and rebuild the team on low maintenance is to go down for a year or two. In the process, you also pocket the huge transfer fees and not to forget the parachute money. Perhaps, the Davids are not targeting relegation, but if it happens, they may see it as a blessing in disguise.
I don't think it's their purpose to go down and sell all our key-players.
Sure, there will go some of them in the transfer window but they won't eliminate 3/4 of our first team. BUT as you already mentioned the double Ds are businessmen so everything is possible...
COYI!
I predicted it before HF do I get a special prize
HF I was harping on about this back in January ... it makes total business sense to be relegated. If we manage to stay up then the we just haven't the finances to resolve the problems generated by Dux and his total mis management of our accounts. We need several new players in order to stay in contention with the likes of Stoke, Blackburn and Bolton. We are a Newcastle team awaiting to be put out of our misery. We have a squad of not good enough led by by the not interested with the likes of Scott Parker drowning in his own persuit of dragging the team forward singlehandedly.
Yep Tom, I remember you saying. Let's hope we are both eating our words after the game. Zola has gone for all out attck I see - midfield of Noble, Kovac, Parker and Behrami. That quartet is bristling with goals. Still we have Mido up front alongside Carlton Cole!
COYI we hit a nerve with that one didn't we HF - it's starting to get a little too easy these days...
What nerve? COYI? Not at all, think it is adding something to the posts, albeit I am stealing an idea from OSP.
Tell you what must hurt you TO, of all the match reports on News Now All Sources, mine generated the most hits. Why do you think that is? Because everybody thinks this blog is crap?
I did the math and you have as I think you've already agreed to 10 regular posters out of 344,000 hits which means only 0.002 visitors decide post here regularly
Luckily this isn't a profit making concern mate or you'd be bust!]
Which means that 99.99% of visitors don't think it's worth becoming a regular here preferring to go elsewhere
Come on you must be so proud of those stats irons!
See my reply elsewhere. So I have accessed one third of West Ham's fan base in a year! I am a marketing genius!
Hang on Turds Out, you posted at midday on April 5th and calculated on basis of 344,000 hits. There's now been 346,469 hits at 7.27 on the same day. Try to keep up mate. Get your calculator out again and do your sums!
The calculator makes your odds even less - 7 regulars out of 346,469 hits - that's plain dreadful - there's a page on facebook for an egg that has more visitors and more comments.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Can-this-egg-get-more-fans-than-Katie-Price/316764126342
The more hits you get the worse it looks - 7 regular posters...........
Check the other Hammer sites - you could learn something WHTID, KUMB and even the .org have more posts and posters
Just two quick points; as you will have noticed since the publication of this blog teams receive 12million per year for 2 years currently under the parachute payment scheme. Also whilst nouble may be a decent back up for you I think you would need someone else as well; nouble was very disappointing for west brom, especially considering some of his more impressive outings for you. Perhaps another season on loan would benefit?
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